<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29857]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trivial losses often prove great gains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trivial losses often prove great gains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26157]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party?  Time was made for slaves,   But never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should we break up Our snug and pleasant party?  Time was made for slaves,   But never for us so hearty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23574]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The campaign was successful. Equal conditions were created for all candidates and that gives me hope the election will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The campaign was successful. Equal conditions were created for all candidates and that gives me hope the election will be democratic and transparent,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46407]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love or whatever you name it; it just makes losing our freedom! welcome to the club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love or whatever you name it; it just makes losing our freedom! welcome to the club.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are the pauses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;  No fear lest he should swerve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;  No fear lest he should swerve or faint;   "His life is Christ, his death is gain."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a woman like a dew-drop, She's so purer than the purest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The theme from here until after Labor Day is going to be more postponements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The theme from here until after Labor Day is going to be more postponements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48728]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather should he court the ray,   To hoard up warmth against a wintry day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Erroneous vassals! the great King of Kings Hath in the table of his law commanded  That thou shalt do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Erroneous vassals! the great King of Kings Hath in the table of his law commanded  That thou shalt do no murder. Will you then   Spurn at his edict, and fulfil a man's?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brain-washing starts in the cradle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a lot of confidence coming in. I told them to treat it like a championship but to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a lot of confidence coming in. I told them to treat it like a championship but to have fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Greatest Story He Never Told' is what the book should have been called. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Greatest Story He Never Told' is what the book should have been called.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. [Lat., Urit enim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18261]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man scorches with his brightness, who overpowers inferior capacities, yet he shall be revered when dead. [Lat., Urit enim fulgore suo qui praegravat artes  Intra se positas; extinctus amabitur idem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49576]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not usually look for allies when we love. Indeed, we often look on those who love with us as rivals and trespassers. But we always look for allies when we hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother was very happy to have been set free. He was not expecting this decision. He was writing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28435]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother was very happy to have been set free. He was not expecting this decision. He was writing a new Bible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is learning what to overlook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is learning what to overlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send them into everlasting Coventry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send them into everlasting Coventry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice as soon as possible, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36813]]></link><description><![CDATA[We deplore this terrorist act and vow to get the criminals to justice as soon as possible,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44566]]></link><description><![CDATA[If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece, we died, and here in endless glory rest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53307]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors annihilation. [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8667]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27671]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the cord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64938]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not difficult to become a great Greyhound, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not difficult to become a great Greyhound,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have times of uncertainty, it's a time to take less risk, not more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have times of uncertainty, it's a time to take less risk, not more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?" All the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing:  But, och! it hardens a' within,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing:  But, och! it hardens a' within,   And petrifies the feeling!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26558]]></link><description><![CDATA[For talk six times with the same single lady, And you may get the wedding dress ready.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's metal more attractive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's metal more attractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4723</guid></item></channel></rss>